As I'm learning and starting to understand Morse code, I'm starting to enjoy some of the "Easter Eggs" of the hobby.

The most obvious is 73. It's just fun to bang that out. This weekend I realized W1AW is sort of the same for all the characters (.-- .---- .- .--). Not sure if that's intentional or not, but I'm sure it made Hiram Percy Maxim's call was easy to remember for the early amateurs.

Not quite as Earth shattering as realizing the rhythm on Rush's YYZ is Morse code, but fun anyway.

One of the military callsigns which we used to re-cycle as much as possible was UU2. ..- ..- ..--- which sounds like Rossini's WilliamTell Overture/Lone Ranger Theme. Another popular one was 335 ...-- ...-- ----- which sounds like the old Woody Woodpecker hi-hi-hi-haaa-haaaah ... call from the cartoons. As a Buddy of mine used to say: "It's 335 time!" and then do his best Woody Woodpecker imitation.

One of the nice things in the old days of military Morse - especially in training - was that we could use about any calls, because when you have enough weapons, the ITU did not matter.

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